Lyrics

[Verse] I've seen the firewatcher's daughter Watching fires burn from smoke to black There's nothing she won't burn, from styrofoam to urns To someone else's ashes in a sack [Verse] You can scorch the metal, you can even melt the glass You can pass the time here, fire lives into the past An all-consuming flame that refines and new begins It'll take your family heirlooms, but it can take your darkest sins [Chorus] It's a good old bedtime story, give you nightmares till you die And the ones who love to tell 'em hide the mischief in their eyes Condemn their sons to Hades and Gehenna is full of guys alive and well But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter [Verse] We exorcize the demons of the things we used to know The gnashing of the teeth become the remnants of our homes We think we're moving on from materials we long To forget we ever sold our souls to own [Verse] There's a chilling absolution that we're given at our birth A powerful delusion and a plague upon the earth But nothing scares me more than the stranger at my door Who I fail to give shelter, time, and worth [Chorus] It's a good old bedtime story give you nightmares till you die And the ones who love to tell 'em hide the mischief in their eyes Condemn their sons to Hades, Gehenna is full of guys alive and well But there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter